Paper Info
Title
Designing Mind(set) and Setting for Profound Emotional Experiences in Virtual Reality
Abstract
Virtual reality (VR) has the potential to support profound emotional experiences, such as experiencing awe when virtually viewing the Earth from space. In doing so, VR can potentially both give people positive emotional experiences contributing to their overall well-being and give researchers a way to study these profound emotional experiences in a more controlled environment. Through a design refinement process, we explored the potential influence of the "set and setting''--one's mindset and the physical and social environment--when transitioning people into and out of VR designed to support profound emotional experiences. We present our findings from a design refinement session and a case study exploring how set and setting may support the profound emotional experience of awe. We discuss common themes in user experience and trends of awe-related behavioural and introspective measures. Our results contribute to the discourse around the role of the design of set and setting in overall user experience.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3357236.3395560
DIS '20: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2020 Eindhoven Netherlands July, 2020
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-6974-9
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexandra Kitson1244.71
Ekaterina R. Stepanova2114.98
Ivan A. Aguilar300.34
Natasha Wainwright400.34
Bernhard E. Riecke564470.79